ua-device-type

User agent based device type sniffer tablet||mobile||desktop||tv. Based almost wholely on the matching code from the npm package express-device by rguerreiro

example

 
var deviceType = require('ua-device-type');
 
deviceType('Mozilla/5.0 "
  +"(Linux; Android 4.1.1; Nexus 7 Build/JRO03S) "
  +"AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) "
  +"Chrome/18.0.1025.166 Safari/535.19') === "tablet"
 
// true
 

api

deviceType(user agent string, [optional options])

return values

String

• "tablet"
• "phone"
• "tv"
• "desktop"

optional options

options is an object

• emptyUserAgentDeviceType
  • if no user agent is passed or the user agent is empty this option will be returned.
  • defaults to "desktop"
• unknownUserAgentDeviceType
  • instead of "phone" if unknown the value if this option will be returned
  • defaults to "phone"
• botUserAgentDeviceType
  • instead of "bot" the value of this option will be returned.

thanks

Special thanks to rguerreiro author of https://github.com/rguerreiro/express-device who tracked down the device matching code from https://github.com/bjankord/Categorizr

I needed to use this without using express. its a small lib so i bundled it up for all to enjoy.